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Christmas Eve 10pm was when we finally made it home. Woot! Still before Christmas and all that.

I think Kit's travel and computer gremlins are rubbing off on us. Between the blizzard in Colorado that meant we had 2 cancelled flights, an unscheduled roadtrip and a 4 day delay in returning home, PreZ's harddrive in his 7-month-old laptop died on him Saturday night amidst horrible grindy noises. Lenovo/IBM are sending him a new harddrive, and Nadya will be asking a friend of hers if he can help with data recovery from the current disk (because he apparantly did that for a job at some point). Most of his data is backed up in various places, but there is some code (from personal projects) that isn't all backed up that he'd like retrieved.

While in L.A. we got Nadya hooked up with a new bed, mattrass and work desk, so our stay there was productive too. Dashiell had fun speed-crawling after the 2 cats and 2 small dogs (one chihuahua and one small jack russell-ish looking dog), much to their dismay.

Sadly we didn't have an oppertunity to get together with [livejournal.com profile] djbloodrose, but we had a lovely chat on the phone until her physical presence was required by her family.

It's strange being back in NY again, especially after spending time in various far flung states and with friends. Our extended stay out west means that some people's Christmas cards will be late, and we actually attended Christmas today with PreZ's family whilst bearing no gifts, because of the sudden lack of shopping days before the main event (and I hadn't really shopped online because I didn't want stuff delivered while we were away, and risk it being sent back).

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Of course I've left this all a little late, but oh well. It was the silly season after all.

We spent Christmas over at PreZ's aunt's house, as per usual. Dashiell made off with the best haul, of course. For the third year running we ended up with one of those bathproduct baskets, even though the ones from last year (we got 2 from them) haven't even been touched, and the one from the year before that is only partially used. The fact that we don't have a bath in the apartment doesn't make using those items any easier either.

I got one sweater with a reindeer on it. That had tinsel and ornaments in its antlers. Somebody shoot me now. PreZ got a plain black long-sleeved tshirt. Why couldn't I be that lucky? At least Dash got a $50 gift card for Gymboree, so I can live vicariously through him by buying him cute stuff.

Yeah, *thanks* Santa... (pic) )

What is the deal with festive holiday themed clothing anyway? Most of it, especially the Christmas stuff is hideous, it's not like a fun Halloween costume or anything, it's just a gaudy piece of clothing you wear once at most (and probably only to please whatever relative decided to torture you with it). This particular sweater will most certainly go unworn, and I doubt I could even unload it on Ebay. Oh, and she got it for me in XL. I'm kind of tall at 5'8", but I'm hardly wide enough to warrant XL.

Other than that it was good. We had gotten Alex a game for his PSP which he'd received in November for his birthday. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I ended up running down the battery on his PSP playing it that evening. Heh, oops. Not that he cared, he was playing with one of the other gazillion toys he'd received. I will say that the PSP has amazing graphics for something so small, but console games really don't do it for me. I like a little more depth to my gameplay than just left-right-up-down and A and B button type games.

Fast forward a week to New Year's Eve.

We went down to New Brunswick to meet up with [livejournal.com profile] darkvervain, [livejournal.com profile] vgnwtch, [livejournal.com profile] anachronaut, [livejournal.com profile] nadya_lev, [livejournal.com profile] jezzylin and [livejournal.com profile] littleweirdgrrl, as well as a bunch of [livejournal.com profile] darkvervain and [livejournal.com profile] vgnwtch's friends for Ethiopian food at Makeda's, which was outstanding as usual.

Dessert and the countdown to the New Year was back at [livejournal.com profile] darkvervain and [livejournal.com profile] vgnwtch's place. Having a large group of geeks of various stripes is always fun. Talk about computers, books, movies, photography, Firefly, Dr. Who, Laurell K. Hamilton... comparing cameras and learning new tips and tricks, playing around with the gothling, all whilst eating yummy foodstuffs and beverages.

We had a lot of fun, and it was nice to be able to catch up with [livejournal.com profile] littleweirdgrrl who was visiting from California. Sadly I didn't get a chance to talk to [livejournal.com profile] jezzylin who was seated elsewhere at the dinner table and had to leave right after dinner. Hopefully this weekend will change that :)

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